From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1U613H-0000OM-1y for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:48:47 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33638) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U6139-0000Mv-GZ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:48:45 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U6133-00055r-5u for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:48:39 -0500 Received: from mail-wi0-f174.google.com ([209.85.212.174]:40159) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U6132-00055c-SF for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:48:33 -0500 Received: by mail-wi0-f174.google.com with SMTP id hi8so20357wib.13 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 07:48:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=mIELEY5DKXypccH+1LtHUG1RGAe3RRKX5I9HzjLiDag=; b=tWAo+za+fHiqqAvi/5k8eik+nBCk2wbRD6VS5pDaGGgK0qF0bR0GIjZBI9m0ECx8fM jZvkxuAK+CZE78cqJg+ermner0uEkUQv83+DbGhilDGydpYlrBDRPOKLSLCh8WQbvMJK 7Cdr4mFmkKNx/J1CIHZiQ60AsnJV3XhKik1wObQ39vEJJPn+lv8s9lQa72vGCTM4lWIm OTYTwWi7ZdBdJsxcwIMAHEd9yfh+U1EJhMvjX+eU9hl/o2irxlE0g4iSuyG86KPAFPVB sQMEK2CIP23dbO4RTUtGBJO03XvJVwj1zYPJbwMND16hFUIUOMqtQ9P/JNXENB90ke7G ixzQ== X-Received: by 10.194.122.131 with SMTP id ls3mr46739588wjb.55.1360856911213; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 07:48:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from debian.x201.phnet ([217.193.148.98]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q13sm611941wie.0.2013.02.14.07.48.29 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 14 Feb 2013 07:48:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <511D073D.2040005@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:48:13 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.12) Gecko/20130116 Icedove/10.0.12 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: Everything and the kitchen sink References: <511CFD54.1050401@ubuntu.com> In-Reply-To: <511CFD54.1050401@ubuntu.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig32363493293E888B7A8F097A" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.212.174 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:48:45 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig32363493293E888B7A8F097A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 14.02.2013 16:05, Phillip Susi wrote: > I recently had an incident that reminded me that while the grub rescue > shell is better than nothing when there's a problem, it often isn't > enough to troubleshoot and work around the error. These days most > disks start the first partition at 1 MiB, so there is no need to keep > the core.img slim and trim, so it would be really nice to throw all of > the modules in there, so you can have a fully functional grub to help > troubleshoot when things go wrong. >=20 > Now I realize that I can manually build a ramdisk image to contain all > modules, and pass that to grub-mkimage, but then as soon as grub is > updated, and grub-install is re-run automatically, my changes would be > wiped out. >=20 > So I think what needs to happen is for grub-install to grow an > --everything option where it would build the ramdisk and attach it > automatically. Additionally there needs to be a conf file or > something where this could be enabled so that it will be applied when > grub is updated. It may also be nice to have this enabled by default > when the embed area is detected to be large enough. >=20 > Thoughts? GRUB diskboot.S runs in real mode. No way it can load more than ~512K --------------enig32363493293E888B7A8F097A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREKAAYFAlEdB0QACgkQNak7dOguQgmfMQD/ZQH5KaOYZKjhc9BxJBVRJWWh Bv5vSngdEOSBu8LD/nsBAJuvdL3Exu1RmMoWR2adterJ05aFbzcUVSClFj6E3bNf =RecX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig32363493293E888B7A8F097A--